MasterCard’s head of mobile, Mung Ki Woo, will appear on Twitter next week for an open question and answer session on mobile payments... More
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Peet’s goes contactless
US regional coffee chain Peet’s is to accept contactless card and Google Wallet NFC payments at all its company-owned locations by the end of this month... More
NFC plugin for PhoneGap
Developers Kevin Griffin and Don Coleman have written an NFC plugin for the PhoneGap open-source mobile development framework... More
Korea gets LTE NFC phone
A new premium NFC smartphone from Pantech will be available in South Korea through SK Telecom from later this month... More
Nokia launches NFC in Thailand
Nokia has launched its 700, 701, 600 and N9 NFC handsets in Thailand... More
Almex offers NFC ticketing
Hoeft & Wessel’s Almex e-ticketing system now allows fares to be dynamically calculated and charged after passengers wave their contactless EMV credit card as they board and again as they leave public transport... More
TI NFC tech heads to POS
Chinese POS specialist ViewAt has produced a reference design for a modular point of sale system that incorporates PCI security and NFC capabilities... More
Paypal pops up payments store
Paypal is to open a demonstration space in the heart of New York to show off its new retail payment technologies... More
Key delivers ads at POS
POS terminal maker Key Innovations has unveiled an unattended payment terminal that uses animated menus to help customers navigate the payment process... More
No NFC for iPhone 4S
If there’s NFC inside the new iPhone announced today, Apple isn’t shouting about it... More
EMVCo reports on NFC
Payments industry technical standards body EMVCo has published a 47-page white paper setting out its view of the contactless mobile payment (CMP) landscape, detailing the principles that guide the body’s efforts, and summarising the work it has carried out to date... More
Hypercom US changes name
The US business of point-of-sale terminal manufacturer Hypercom has changed its name to Equinox Payments... More
Chongqing gets NFC wallet
CRC Bank has launched China UnionPay’s NFC-based mobile payments system in Chongqing, south west China... More
Conti shows NFC car keys
Auto components manufacturer Continental demonstrated its NFC car key concept at last month’s IAA Motor Show in Frankfurt... More
Germans not ready for m-payments
Just one in four Germans wants to pay for goods with their mobile phone and 54% don’t want to use any form of mobile payment, according to a survey conducted by management consultancy Putz & Partner... More
ABI forecasts NFC spend
More than US$100bn will be spent worldwide using NFC in 2016 according to NFC Mobile Payments, a new report from ABI Research... More
Fed studies P2P payments
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Retail Payments Risk Forum has published a working paper (PDF) on peer-to-peer payments as a resource for regulators, consumers, and the payments industry... More
Inside hires NFC evangelist
Digital security specialist Inside Secure has appointed Laurent Sanchez as vice president of applications and ecosystems... More
Aussies call for NFC phones
The Communications Council, an Australian marketing industry body, has urged smartphone makers to release more NFC phones in the country... More
SCM launches NFC dev kit
SCM Microsystems has announced an NFC solutions development kit that includes reader modules, drivers, source code examples for handling device-to-tag and peer-to-peer NFC applications, software development tools, and documentation... More